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About Plattsmouth weekly herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1882-1892 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1891)
1 Kki.p jour cj e on Mchmley. Anytiu.mi to beat the republican ia the democratic watchword. Hltv M'Klili to Itaby Clexeland "KeepVtf' th white house ura.sji WaHhington I 'us!. I K j rl'.C TH N ami reciprocity g;o hand in hand. Thin suit.' the eo pie. .Let the democrat rant. A IX parties im list admit tliHt the Ht.ite ticket named by the repuh limns is positively better than that of the denio-ali-indeijendent ccni binatlon. Tiik voters of Nebraska should not leave the (iff lit wholly in the hands of the ticwupaperH. Kvery republican nhould do a treat deal of individual work. G. C'LKVIiLAND Kmp, i nupport inyfthe ctruig;ht democratic ticket tli in year in the N. Y. campaign. It appear that he and Hill are com intf together al right. 1 M E tanners can now buy more for one day'n labor than wad ever poHHible before. The Hignu of the times1 indicate that they appreciate thin state of alTaitH and will be heard from in November. A (jKKAT many of the independ cuts are beginning' to wonder if they really have been led into the democratic camp. Indeed, when they all vote for the name candi dates it begin to look that way. TilK republican ticket which head thia page county, judicial and state -doe not contain a name that i unworthy the vote of every member of the party. And it is evident that a Htrong, enthuaiuHtic mid harmonium pull i being made to elect the entire ticket. OUK democratic coiitemporarie do not ay a great deal these day about that 25 per dent they propoHe that the government ahull pay the Hilverking for their silverproduct, in exce8 of the market price. The fact remain, neverthele, that their platform favor pint hucIi legislation. Why have a plank in the platform that they are afraid to defend? It i better otherwine and appear much more houet. Tiik majority of our democratic exchange prefer I'oat to Kdgerton. ltyrau come in tor hi nhare of censure for intimating that the candidate for reirent should with draw. The giddy congrets man has been elevated to a poi lion oi responsibility iiy a mere accident and now, he cares little who is elected or w hat principals the candidate represent, if it i possible to beat the republican party. JUDGE CHAPMAN In nominating Judge Chapman to succeed himself a judge of the second judicial district the repub lican convention acted purely in ac cord with the wishes of the repuh lican party. Cass county nvog -. ii i i . i . . . ni.es iiiai sue nas no man that is better qualified to till the position and Otoe county, in continually supporting our candidate, doubtless recognizes in him an able, honest, impartial tribunal. C'ont.kkssman Hkyan does not lavor Kdgerton because of his fit ness for the position to which he aspires. He knows perfectly well that to elevate him to that exalted position would have a tendency to rob it of the dignity that should characterize it; hut simply to give iluvor to hi spleenelic envy and jealousy he yields to this dishonor able method of knifeing the repub lican party. The giddy congress man will awaken to the fact hw. ever, that honest loyal democrats prefer lo maintain the dignity and stability of our highest court of justice by voting for Judge A. M. Post. THEY KNOW HIS CALIBRE. The people ol Nebraska know a few' thing about J. V. Kdgerton which will keep thctn from giving him their vote for judge of the supreme court. They know that lie has been trjl ing lo practice law for thirteen year without being able to make a living at it. They know that he has been a re publican, a democrat, a union labor man and an independent within live years, and ha been a candidate for something at the hand of every party of which he has ever been a member. They know that he i a local wire puller whose politic are not a mat ter of principle but of expediency. They know he was a member of the conscienceless lobby which dis graced the legislature, the state and the independent party at Lincoln last winter. Tin y know that as a lobbyist he rcpres?i!ic.i a local monopoly aim assisted in the defeat of a measure which the farmers of the state sought lo t-iiact into a law. They know that he joined ban with oilier deteated candidate in the elfort to steal offices to which they were not elected and bolstered hi claim ui) bv the most luii.en falsehoods. Tliev know that he stood ready to pocket the contest fees voted to him by the legislature, although ho knew there was no sort of ground for attempting to unseat Attorney General Hastings. They know lvdgerton is entirely unlit by education, experience and associations for any judicial office above that of justice of the peace They will know more about him to his discredit before the campaign is over from his own lips if he con tinues his harangues on the Btump and attempts to explain away the unsavory record he has made in Stromsburir und South Omaha. - Omaha Flee. Tiik Cincinnati Enquirer, speak ing of the sugar boutitv clause of the new tariff law makes the follow ing rediculous statement: "So we pay bounty an unconsti' tutional and outrageous perform ance on its face of something like $ H,tXX).(MX a year. Where do we get that $IH,iKK),(X)0? Do we pick it off of currant bushes? Do we find it in the street? The people pay it. They pay as much for their Htigar a they ever did." This money its not picked "off of currants bushes"-certainly nof. It is paid out of the U. S. treasury. Hut for every $18 paid the Amer ican larmer tor growing wugar beets, $." is saved, by taking the duty off imported sugar. The out rage of which the free trade organ speaks consists in placing a tax for a revenue duty is always a tax - of $."3,(XK),(KX) per year upon a com modity which we cannot produce in sufficient quantities but which every family must use. The republican party, true to the principle of encouraging home in dustry, pays the American producer of sugar two cents bounty per pound. In this way our farmers! are encouraged to diversify their iroducts, employ more labor and at the same time produce a Htaple commodity for American use. It is noticeable that every move of the republican party that seeks to encourage American industries ind thus . cripple foreign mono polies meets with rediculous op position of which the clipping from this organ is a sample. M KINLEY TARIFF The American Economist recently addressed 1,400 merchants in the different part of the Union re garding the prices of articles in common use. Hy referring to authoritative statistics the prices of the same commodities during the free trade time 18a7, September of lastjyear and October of tliisyearnr..' given. It would be well to preserve theeopy for the purpose of silencing the exponents of the would-be Hrit ! .1. ,.ir .a 'ti. ... ism nionopoiisi. i ue siau'ineiil is as follows: Articles. I Oct. Is) ta F ss u .1 70 Ax HIiiilniK twine, Hi.. Hliiiikcto. iah' HlueshlrtliiK, yd ... Hoot I Hiiro, yl I'anirt. yil Cotton i Hives Cotton Hosiery Cotton knit goiaN. . Cotton Hi 'it, i-pool . Crowbar, iti Pi'wioKch'iir, nr.. Kile Fork, S-MiiimI.. .. . Flannel, yard Krult cans, do . .. . (illlKllHIII, VHlit .. . Ilaml taw ll.K IIhiiiu rtipe. Hi ,..'4 Linen, ya it MnwiuKiiiaclili.e . . Nails, wire, Hi .. . Nulla. 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'.'4 00 lb no n 1 40 20' i 14 2 WoulM clothing... After the prohibitionists hold their convention every voter ought to be able to find a suitable man. They had better endorse lvdgerton, however, as' the republican feel strong enough to down everything this venr. The Golden band dispensed some line music upon our street today, It is one of the finest eouinned and hilled band that has ever ap peared in our city. HUNT1NU KANGAROOS. THERE ARE NOT SO MANY IN AUS TRALIA AS THERE ONCE WAS. Who I male I. x termination llrfure tlie Valur of Their S.kln Wan Knon 11 Hot it !iiiliuruo III-.. nilioHrln a SI xn or a Diijj rouglit Only un tlie Jleh-imito. The traveler wImuu late brings to the colonies may journey from end to end of them without seeing in the flesh either of the a:iima!s that figure upon the Aus- tralian cunt of linns the kuni;aruo urn meeinu. liieraare plenty of both la certain districts, hut they are many iniiea sway rrum the railroads, as a rule, and are seen only by those who Lave oc- ciiwiun to vihit remote "btutious," and to explore the alternate stretches of plain and "bush," which constitute the "back flocks," as the interior portions of the country are ntyled iu colonial phrase ology. When the early settlor entered the country they found the marsupial tribe swarming in countless millions all over it, and when they sought pasturage for their Hocks discovered that the ungener ous soil would not furnish grass enough tor kangaroos and sheep together. A war of extermination ujion the original panturers upou the land was therefore inaugurated, and waged with such dead ly effect that at present a kangaroo is in most districts quite as conspicuous hy his absence as the buffalo upon the plains of America. ONCE ABUNDANT. The old squatters relate extraordinary tales of the former abundance of these strange features how the eye could not range in any direction without see ing hundreds of them; how they entered the "paddocks" and grazed in the midst of the bheep, and how, when the grass grew scant ami tlio Bocks were on the verge of starvation, "drives" were or ganized, iu which thousands of the kan garoos were killed and the sparse pastur age was eased. Wanton as seems the wholesale slaughter of these animals, it was, from the squatter's point of view. astern and imperative necessity. The only regret of pastoralists in the prem ises is that they did not then know the fortune that they lost by allowing the carras.ps of the slain to lie and rot where they had fallen; for there was no sus picion then that kangaroo leather was of any value, or that a demand would spring up for it that should make the skin of one of these animals worth more than that of the sheep whose protection was bought hy their slaughter. So im portant hag the trade iu kangaroo hides now become that the question of how the animals that furnish them shall be pre served has taken the place of devising inuasnres for their extinction. The progress or the kangaroo is rapid, and for a mile or twolt requires a good horse to keep iu sight of him. After that, however, he tires, and is overtakeu without difliculty. The chase of tlie kangaroo is under taken variously on horseback, with or without dogs, and hy stalking, either with rifle or shotgun. A kangaroo hunt on horseback is an exciting and often dangerous pastime. In timber, where it usually takes place, it is particularly hazardous, owing to falleu logs and low set branches, which often sweep the incautious hunter over his horse's tail and drop him in an undignified position ou the ground belaud. Firearms are uot employed in this pursuit, and when the game is cornered it is killed by a blow from the butt end of a heavy rid ing whip or from a stirrup which is un shipped from the saddle for the purpose. The dogs used iu the chase are a rough breed of large greyhounds, which have not only the strength necessary to pur sue a flying kangaroo for miles, but also lo attack him when he is brought to bay. The old dogs in a station pack of kau garoo htiuters are often marked from ears to tail with frightful scars, the rec ords of many tough encounters with an tkuiinal which, timid ai.d inoffensive as it is by nature, develops in iieril a cour age aud even ferocity that are rarely found outside the order of camivora. HOW HE FKJHTS. Tlio kaugaroo seems jioorly provided by nature with offensive weapons. His powers of biting are not formidable, and his forepaws are so weak as to s!em al most rudimentary members and of little use. His hind legs are muscular aud strong, but are apparently of use only to sssist flight from his enemies. In these hind legs is found, however, a most for midable weapon in the shape of a long claw as hard as steel and sharp as a chisel as terrible to dogs as the scythe ihariots of the ancients were to their en einiea. When ran down, the kangaroo, placing a tree behind him to protect his rear, will seize iu his forepaws such in discreet dogs as rush upon him, and, holding them firmly, disembowel them with a sweep of his sicklelike claws. Even the hunters themselves thus caught in the viselike grip of an "old man" kan garoo of the larger breeds have some times suffered iu like manner, and have uow aud then taken their own turn at being hunted as the enraged animal turned uimn them and attacked their horses with blind ferocity. The kanga roo tights with great address and intelli gence, and if he can find a stream or water hole in which to await his foes, will station himself waist deep in it aud, pushing the dogs under one by one as they swiiu out to attack him, either drown theiu outright or compel them to retire from want of breath. Against human enemies, armed only with clubs or stirrup irons, the kangaroo often shows himself a clever boxer, warding uff blows very dexterously with his fore paws, aud now and then making for ward bounds, with rapid play of his dan gerous hind feet, which ar difficult to avoid. Melbourne Cor. Huston Journal. A Delli'( Him. He 1 stej.pvd on ytfAv &vss. Vott must think mo a jierfect bear. She Oil, no, Mr. Bashful; you do not remind uih iu the least of a bear. And he has been wondering ever sunt what she meant. Detroit Fre Press. PAYING THE ULOOD TAX. PEASANTS PAY MONEY FOR MUR DERS COMMITTED IN 1375. 4 Ielil Wlilih His tuhiibllitiiti of Iht I'y ri iiiM-s Huvn Ki litiously I'ald Annu ally lor Over I'lv t'eiilnrie The Cei liiony llesrribcd by 1 Witimu. The ludepeinl'jut des Basses-Pyrenees publishes a very interesting description written by M. Alfred Cadier, a French Protestant clergyman at Pau, of a cer uinuial which ho witnessed on the fron tier of France aud Spain. This con sisted in the payment of a blood tai, and it appears that there are two or three places in the Pyrenees where the custom, founded upon the beliof that "a murder committed by the inhabitants of a village or canton npon those of an ad joining village or canton must forever remain g burden upon the descendants of their descendants," is still observed. Thus, about the middle of the Four teenth century, the inhabitants of the valley of Lavedan, having massacred tlw defenseless residents of Aspe, were con demned by the pope to pay a perpetual tax of thirty sols, which was levied upon twenty-two villages aud paid up to the time of the revolution. Iu the Thir teenth centnry, if not earlier, a similar crime was committed between the val leys of Baretons, in French Navarro, and Roncal, in Spanish Navarre. The blood tax which the inhabitants of the former were ordered by the pope to discharge is paid still, the ceremony taking place annually on July 13 in the mountains, about anven hours' march from Osse, at the pass known as La Peyre St. Martin. It is thus described by M. Cadier: A GALA fiCKNE. A crowd of people is to be seen mak ing their way to the rendezvous. The shepherds of the Baretons valley, with their red waistcoats intersiiersed with dark threads, the mayors and delegates of the villages of Arette, Laune. Aramits and Issor, the foresters of the mountain, the custom house officers without their guns, the clergy, represented hy the priest of St. Engrace and two curates, and a few English tourists from Osse helped to make up this singular assembly. When we reached the narrow stone which marks off the frontier, with the name St. Martin inscribed upon the two sides of it in French aud Spanish, we found ourselves face to face with the Sjwniards, wiio tormed an imposing group. t irst was the alcalde of Isaba, who was to act the part of lord chief lustice. He was wearing a black robe, bordered with red, and a large collarette by wav of bauds, while he carried in his baud the wand of justice, in the shape of a black stick with a 6ilver knob. The al caldes of three or four other Spanish vil lages were similarly attired, aud they were accompanied by a numerous suite, made np of delegates from the general junta of the valley of Roncal, the notary, the veterinarian, and others, the escort consisting of seven or eight armed car- raniueros and guards, while in the rear were a number of "bourriqueros," who had come iu tlie Lope of sellinir the skins of wiue with which their donkeys were loaded. It was about 9 a. m. when the cere monial, which has been observed without interruption since 13T5. commenced bv the French mayors donning their tri color scarf, and by the Spanish alcaldes advancing toward the frontier stone, accompanied by a herald bearing a lance on which was painted a red flame, the symbol of justice. THE CEREMONY. The two parties having halted at a dis tance of about twenty feet from their respective frontiers, the herald substi tutes for his red flame a white one, which is the Rymbol of pacific intentions, and the alcalde of Isaba exclaims iu Spanish, "Do you wish for peace?" To this the French mayors reply in the af firmative, also speaking in Spanish, and in order to testify to the sincerity of their intentions, their herald lays down bis lance upon tha top of the stone in the direction of the frontier, whereupon the Spanish herald comes and inserts his lance into the French soil, resting le shaft against the stone so as to foriC crot-s with the French lance. The mayor of Arette then comes and lays his hand ujKn the cross so formed, a Spanish al calde places his right hand npon that of the Frenchman aud the other mayors and alcaldes do the same alternately. Last of all, the alcalde of Isaba steps forward, and, lifting his wand of justice over the pile of hands, pronounces the oath, which all swear to keep. After this oath has been taken the alcalde of Isaba exclaims three times, "Paz daraus" (peace in the future). Peace is thus anew concluded, and to ratify their having given up all idea of vengeance tho men of Roncal order the escort to discharge their guns in the direction of France. Then comes the receptiou of the blood tax, which used to consist of three perfectly white mares, but owing to the difficulty of getting them exactly alike three white heifers have been sub stituted for them. The three heifers presented this year were v.orth about twenty-three pounds, which is a large sum for tlie district, and after the Ron cal notary hud drawn up a proces verbal, which was signed all around, a repast was served at the expense of the Spaniards, toasts being proposed in honor of Spain, France and England, the introduction of England being due to the presence wf several English visitors. After the re past was over dancing followed, aud we then said good by till next year. How a riant 1'nilrcU lUflf. One little plant of South Africa pro tects itself by assuming a curious like ness to a white lichen that covers the rocks; the pliiut has sharp pointed green leaves; these are placed close together with their points upward, and on tho tip of each leaf is a little white, scaly sheath. The resemblance of the sianot h surface these present to the lichen grow ing on the rocks, beside which it is al ways found, is so great that it is not till you tread on it that you discover ti.e Jeceptiou. Fortnightly Review. .aTERS OF CARBON. Ti.i ai, U I'liiit limn Oal of he Air, Nl Iroia the liruuud. Take an ordinary seltzer water siphon and empty it till ouly a few drops re main in the bottom. Then the bottle is full. of gits, and that gas, which will rush out with a spurt when you pre.-s the knob, is the stuff that plant eat -raw material of life, both animal and vegetable. The tree grows aud lives by taking in the carbonic acid from the air and solidifying its carbou; the animal grows aud lives by taking the solidified carbon from the plant aud couvertiug it once more into carbonic acid. That, in its ideally simple form, is the Iliad iu a nutshell, the core aud kernel of biology. The whole cycle of life is one eternal seesaw. First the plant col lects its carbon compounds from the air in the oxidized state: it deoxidizes aud rebuilds them, aud then the animal pro ceeds to burn them by slow combustion within its own body and to turn tliun loose npon the air once more oxidized After which the plant starts again on t ha ariiM rn.-Lrl ub liurnra nnil iha nnmi.-il , also recommences da capo. And so on ..i i, finim... But the point which 1 want particti-1 larly to emphasize here is just this: That trees and plants don't grow out of th ground at all, as most people do vainly talk, bnt directly out of the air, hikI that when they die or get consumed they return once more to the atmosphere from which they were taken. Trees un deuiably eat carbou. Of course, therefore, all the ordinary unscientific conceptions of how plants feed are absolutely erroneous. Vegetable physiology indeed got beyond those conceptions a good hundred years ago, But it usually takes a hundred years to uie worm ai large to make np its lee way. Trees don't Buck up their nutri ment by the roots, they don't deriv their food from the soil, they don't need to be fed like babies through a tube with terrestrial solids. The solitary instauc of an orchid hung np by a string in conservatory on a piece of bark ought to tie sufficient at ouce to dispel forever this strange delusion if people ever thought; but, of course, they don't think I mean other people. The true mouths and stomachs of plants are not to be found in the roots but m the green leaves; their true food is not sucked up from the soil, but is in haled through tiny channels from the air; the mass of their material is carbon, as we can all see visibly to the naked eye when a log or wood w reduced to char coal, aud that carbon the leaves them selves dnuk in by a thousand small green mouths from the atmosphere around them. But how about the juice, the sap, the qualities or the ou, the manure required, is the Incro-v :.a cry of other people, What is the m of the roots, and espe cially of the rootlots, if they are not the months aud supply tubes of the plants? well, I plainly perceive I can get "no torrader," like the fanner with his claret, till I've answered that question, pro visionally at least; so 1 will say here at once, without further ado, that the plant requires drink as well as food, and the roots are the mouths that supply it with water. They also suck up a few other things as well, which are necessary indeed, but far from forming the bulk of the nutri ment. Many plants, however, don't need any roots at all, while none can get on without leaves as mouths and stomachs that is to 6ay, no true plant- like plants, for some parasite plants are practically to all iutents and purposes auimals. to put it briefly, every plant has one set of aerial months to suck carbon, and many plants have another set of subterranean mouths as well, to suck up water and mineral constituents. Cornhill Magazine. Tbli Knew a Gnoit Thlnr. It would be quite impossible for any liv ing being, it would seem, to be insensible to the charms of camp life. One morn ing when the Listener was in camp, a queer looking black dog of uncertain race, out nroad betweeu the eyes.hkeall intelli gent dogs, suddenly popped into the nlace. evidently upon some journey around the lake. He looked about him in astonish ment, aud then sat down and looked again. Then he settled instantly down, in a sort of glad, grateful .way, which was as much as to say, "This is exactly the sort of place that I've always been looking for!" Not another step did he stir on the journey. He adopted the camp from that mo ment and everybody in it. Nobody knew where he came from or to whom he belonged. He was a total stranger to the people who lived on the farm not far away. He slept in front of the tent at night, and barked at any stranger who came that way, and answered amiably to the name of Liberty Moses. No doubt, when the camp broke up, he went back to his more civilized home, wherever it was, but as long aa that charming spot remained in existence there was no other place for him. Boston Transcript. To Item I ud HI in. Little Pete is a good boy as well as a boy of a great deal of originality iu his "notions," but he has the serious fault of being extremely forgetful. One day, after having gone on an er rand and forgotten what he was sent for, he exclaimed bitterly to his sister: "Oh, dearl I wish I was a snake!" "Yon wish you were a snake?" said his sister, horrified. "Yes. aud a great long one as much as six feet long." "Why, what for, Pete?' "So 1 could tie knots in mvself to make mo remember tilings!" Youth's Companion. Threa Uuofa In a Ontiirjr ami a Half, Morgan Mory, of Upper Saucon, Pa., has had his burn reroofed with tin. The structure was built in 1753, when it was roofed with cedar. A number of years later pine shingles took the place of the cedar. It has been roofed only thme times during its existence. The barn ii still in a good btat. of preservation, and will outlast a few more roofs. Exchange. Mil J II Chauged. Cond actor C , of our early train, was a church member with a reputation of be- i .,r,l ut,,4 milil timrmered fe llig JJOOU IWlUivu nuv u.ii - all. He's changed in appearance Saturday's trip. Our train had juststl v ed from E station when we saws.M Ait an nfT nn old woman of the coKf iv'rsuasiou and of 200 pounds welghlX shiny and nervous, with carpetbag and umbrella swinging with the energy of . ,ii i,i euteli t,h train UCI l-- - His heart was touched and he pulled the ropes for "down brakes." At this unusual signal every window was pushed up aud au eager head thrust out of each The conductor Buiilingly encourage,! the would be passenger, and the others cheered her as she thundered along in a full duck gallop. Two lady friends of hers (brunettes) stood npon the platform of the car and frantically beckoned hVr approach. When at last she was landl . 1 by the train, aud was helped on bj the conductor, three brakemen and a boy she greeted her two friends with several affectionate "smacks" and a "goodbr children," then rolling back again to the I 0 . P ground 8he turned to our polite comlne- . .. . . ,, tor and said, "Tbank you, boss, and waddled away. That train was started as by one in spasm, and the minister read on the I A' lowing evening a prayer request from ifm wife of a backsliding conductor, Troy Telegram. A H'oiulnrful Mineral Sutntanee. A new mineral substance, resembling asphalt, has been discovered in Texas, which promises to become Very usef'il to the scientific and industrial world. It is unaffected by heat, acid or nlkuliea, and is said to be the most perfect in sulator yet discovered. It may be used for paint and is a perfect covering for wood or iron, resisting all the influences which destroy ordinary paints. As a varnish it retains its character under all conditions. It may lie rolled into atissue and used for waterproof tents, clothing, etc.; it makes leather impervious to water and prevents iron ami steel from rusting Professor Hamilton, of the Western Electric company, finds that .wires cov ered with this substance offer sevenfold the resistance offered by other wires, and the results of its use in electrical engineering are likely to be very marked. The material is found in unlimited quan tities, from two to forty feet below th surface, and if it proves as useful as it promises will be a new source of wealth to Texas. Boston Transcript JL Why People Go to Europe. The high fares on American railroai result in sendiug people to Europe. Alt of New England and the Middle staWs are full of people who have climbed Alps, visited Rome, boulevards of Paris, been all over the United Kingdom and seeu the midnight sun on the coast of Nor way, and yet who Lave never been west of Chicago. They hear of the beauties of the Pacific coast, they read about the glories of the Yosemite valley and they want to go and see them, but when they . learn what it will cost they think theyJ cannot afford to go farther than NiagaiC Falls. After that they go to Europe, an- ens j vj in? autuiuu ('oaoeugi-i' lists have been swelling rapidly until now they are something stupendous to contemplate Bangor (Me.) News. mr i ' u 'i l,n -lw. A llnnl.n n , Ilrcau Gruwlnsr After Ha Was TMrl .fla. uaK cim nas a citizen who is now a robust old gentleman of fine physique aud is descended from a very long lived an cestry, their ages running to ninety-six, ninety-eight, one hundred and six, and up to one hundred and twelve yeurs. He has all his teeth except two which were knocked out by an accident, and they are as sound as a dollar, although he is now seventy years old. He has grown three-fourths of an inch in height 6ince he was thirty-hve years old, and he wears a size larger hat now than he wore then. From that age up to forh4 one or forty-two years his weight r mained at 190 pounds, and now, at three score and ten years, his mental faculties, he says, are brighter than ever before. Dallas (Tex.) News. Arrete4 for Selling KranUleri I'eaclirfc. A peculiar case of innocent violatiiiti of the revenue laws has developed fti uecatur. tr. S. fox bought a Quantity of imported brandied peaches. He took tnem to Cerro Gordo and sold them at his restaurant. Jacob Leslie's boy bo came intoxicated ou the peaches, and this started quite a run on the peaches. rox tiaa to order a fresh supply. Mr. Leslie had Fox arrested for violation f the liquor law, and the trial will take place at Cerro (Jordo. A Decatur chem) ist analyzed the peaches, and found thJTt' one bottle contained 87 per cent, of al cohol. Cor. Chicago Tribnnn. J - Moral, Chew Cum. A man from Oxford countv lost a rail. road coupon ticket to the fair and in. quired at the ticket office if one had been found. One had been found, but how were they to know that it was his. IU . asked to look at it and it was shown mm. tie said: "It is mine. 1 can nro1 it. See. the face of it is torn off 1. ,M 1 here." and he oiieued his vest nnrbot. .ilr I showed a hearty cud of gum and the lCr a imuouii coupon sticking to it The two matched, aud the ticket was nftsswl over to hiim-Lewiston JoumaL Made a Fortuue Ka.llr. Captain D. S. Ooodell. a retired sea captain, of Searsjwrt, Me., advanced money to enable James Knibbs, of Troy, N. Y., to prosecute a suit for an infringe ment npon his fire emrine valv nutnnt-. on coudition that he sbotdd have a cer tain percentage of the damages recov ered, if any. Captaiu Goodell's share of the winning? thus far foots up f 750,000. uangor Letter. Appearaucei Are Deneiirul. While riding down Washington street the other aftoruoon the seat beside w was occupied by a poorly dressed, igno raut looking man, with the misshapen. ui tum uuaver. X et lie icuuuii;, wuu apparently intent in leresc, a wen thumbed copy of Herodo tus in tne original Wreck. Boston News a f
